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The European Commission is unveiling its new anti-poverty strategy today. The only problem is … it doesn’t include any new cash. On the pod, Zoya and Ryan discuss how the EU executive is justifying the lack of new funding in this plan. They also look at how likely the bloc is to reach its target of eradicating poverty by 2050 (spoiler […]

Ein Jahr Regierung Merz. Statt Feierstimmung herrscht massiver Zeitdruck. Bis zur Sommerpause müssen Mammutprojekte wie die Steuerreform, das Rentenpaket und der Haushalt 2027 erledigt werden. Gordon Repinski analysiert mit Rasmus Buchsteiner, ob die schwarz-rote Koalition die Kraft für einen „großen Wurf“ hat oder ob die fundamentalen Unterschiede zwischen Unions-Erwirtschaftung und SPD-Umverteilung im Stillstand enden. Im […]

He’s had to scale back his ambitions accordingly. Immediately after the election, however, he and his coalition partners pressured the outgoing Bundestag to amend the constitution to allow record borrowing for spending on defense, infrastructure and the fight against climate change. The hope was to lay the groundwork for a turning point in the country’s […]

“And I think this was the wrong start. In which country would we accept that? Someone creating really a brutal pressure on a court? We would say, no, you need to discuss this at the political level. My goal was to bring this back to Strasbourg and to address this at the political level.” Not […]

But Mélenchon has suffered a “noticeable decline” in support among moderates, Lestrohan said. “The question is whether he can win them back despite his deteriorated image,” he added. Mélenchon was criticized for campaigning the 2024 European election almost entirely on a platform devoted to the Palestinian cause, and more recently he faced widespread furor over […]

Merz has not shirked away from public discussion across Europe about a more confident and militarily resilient Germany either, as the move inevitably caused some bemusement in Paris — in keeping with Gaullist tradition, French President Emmanuel Macron has been talking of “strategic autonomy” for years now — and was met with consternation in Warsaw. […]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday dismissed the possibility that his upcoming trip to the Vatican is focused on smoothing over relations between the Trump administration and Pope Leo XIV. The State Department announced Monday that Rubio would be meeting with the pope and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during his visit to Italy later this week. Rubio, […]

For Pierrakakis, who is also Greece’s finance minister, the geopolitical situation is making the task more difficult: “The challenge here is that technologies like AI necessitate international governance frameworks at a moment where multilateralism is challenged,” he said in the same press conference. But the scare around Mythos comes amid rocky EU-U.S. relations, with clashes […]

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“He’s a good-for-nothing who should have resigned from public service after the scandal over the inaccurate public budget forecasts,” Tanguy told POLITICO in a text message, arguing that Moulin should be held responsible for France’s budget troubles as he served at the finance ministry.  The country’s far-left also opposes Macron’s proposal. “Independence is one of the cornerstones […]